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Last week I wrote a short missive about a problem I was having with a very vocal minority of my daily MediaBytes video viewers regarding a pre-roll ad. Apparently, making money with online video is a very hot topic, as evidenced by the several thousand email responses to the article. (You can read last week’s Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the mom who was caught file-sharing by the RIAA, has been charged with infringing 24 copyright laws during a retrial. Thomas will be forced to pay the recorded music company’s a total of $1.92 million, roughly $80,000 per song Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Google is set to introduce a micro-blog search engine. The company reported on its blog that the users will soon be able to search Twitter and other micro-blog services through a channel similar to its Google blog and Google news search Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Hulu claims that Nielsen miscalculated its streams for April. Nielsen reported that Hulu served 373 million streams. However, citing analytics from comScore, Hulu claims the number of streams served during the month of April was actually 397 million. News Corp announced Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Disney has officially become an equity-owning partner in NBCU-Fox venture Hulu. The deal ensures that programming from both ABC and the Disney Channel, amongst other Disney owned networks, will air on the popular streaming site. CEO Robert Iger noted that “Disney Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. News Corp is firing MySpace CEO and Co-Founder Chris DeWolfe. DeWolfe, who has been with MySpace since its launch in 2003, ran the company when News Corp acquired it for $580 million in 2005. It has been reported that former Facebook Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. During his weekly video address, President Obama named Aneesh Chopra the United States first Chief Technology Officer. President Obama noted that Chopra, who has served as Virginia’s secretary of technology, along with Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, “will promote technological innovation Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. New York congressman Eric Massa announced that he will introduce a bill that would make bandwidth caps for heavy broadband users illegal. The representative for Corning, NY, where Time Warner Cable plans to test tiered broadband plans, noted that the unlimited Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Associated Press announced that it will require websites to obtain permission in order to use AP and member publications content on site. The decision is a direct move to stop search engines and news aggregators, like Google and Huffington Post, Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. A month before its scheduled premier, a work print of X-Men Origins: Wolverine has leaked to the Internet. While Fox claims the leak is a “rough cut without FX, music, and may contain an April Fool’s virus,” many torrent users, who Continue Reading →